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Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
TIM TRAVERS AND THE TIME TRAVELER'S PARADOX -- Stimson Snead and Samuel FD Dunning Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 22:42
The Explorers Club
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A team of globetrotting, besotted scientists faces a new kind of terra incognita.

Bought by KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 34
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
204: Baker Miller Pink
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1978, Dr. Alexander Schauss and a research assistant mixed 1 gallon of white latex paint with a pint of shiny red and created P-618 aka Baker Mi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
165: Silently Screaming Tomato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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What makes a stand-up comedian wake up one day and decide comedy needs more science? A road comic for 13 years, Shane Mauss made this enlightened d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 26:33
  • Purchases: 1
Instance 1
From: Will Hardwick
Series: Brilly Barner Broadcast
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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:08
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
There will be no coughing on the spaceship. The quarantine lasts for many months. If everyone's healthy, well then the spaceship may be allowed to ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Deep Thinking: I Want To Be An Octopus
From: Russell Johnson
Series: Gone Astray - Russell Johnson
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While sheltering in place for COVID-19, I gave some thought to what I wish I could be. My conclusion? An Octopus. A humorous essay.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:55
74: Giant Sea Spiders
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Absorbing oxygen through their "skin" and pumping blood with their guts, the Giant Sea Spider isn't a true spider, but it's close. Too close for Tr...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:24
71: Ants on Stilts
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:50
70: Galloping Crocodiles
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
S2 E10 The River Styx
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 37:22
62: Troxler Effect
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:24
61: Science Ferrets
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
52: Long Lives of Lobsters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
51: Backpack vs Parachute
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:40
43: Dog Love and an MRI
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Neuroscientists have found that dogs might actually love their people.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:40
29: Social Conventions
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:19